TowersTimes has today received news from TowersTimes Forum member Stu that groundwork has begun on the site of the 2012 attraction for the Alton Towers Resort. Currently the Lava Lump, which previously stood at the top of Forbidden Valley near The Edge arcade, has been removed signalling the start of [...]
Alton Towers Theme Park will host two additional Scarefest attractions when the event is unleashed to the general public from Saturday, 15th to Monday, 31st October 2011. Th13teen: After Dark has been added to the range of spooktacular halloween attractions which follows on from the limited success of Th13teen: Live [...]
Alton Towers will unleash their 2011 Scarefest event in just four weeks with a brand new attraction - Zombies! Scare Zone. The event, which runs from Saturday 15th to Monday 31st October, will see theme park rides open until 9:00pm together with a host of spooky halloween attractions - for [...]
As reported earlier this year by TowersTimes, Alton Towers have recently been on the look-out for lovely looking ladies to grace the pages of a 2012 calendar based on their latest roller coaster Th13teen. The search was launched back in June by Celebrity Big Brother and TOWIE star Amy Childs, [...]
Alton Towers scrapped its free fastpass system many years ago in favour of a paid system, which initially was priced at around £5 per person for a number of major rides. Prices at present cost around £10 for 2 or 3 attractions, with single ride fastrack also available priced around [...]
As we announced previously the planning documents for the 2012 attraction at Alton Towers were released on the Staffordshire Moorlands District Council Planning website last week. These plans detailed much of the outside of the new attraction but revealed very few details of the interior of the building and where [...]
Last week, we reported that Alton Towers had submitted a planning application for the "construction of new indoor ride at Alton Towers Resort and associated hard/soft landscaping works". Today, the Staffordshire Moorlands planning website has released the associated documents, all of which describe the development as "ATR 2012 New Attraction" [...]
At midnight on the 29th of August the results for the all time greatest ride competition were posted on the Alton Towers website. After almost two months of voting Nemesis was crowned king of the coasters. There will now be a ceremony at the resort tomorrow to crown Nemesis. Nemesis [...]
As with previous years, Alton Towers are now offering guests the chance to book their tickets for the Boiler House and Carnival Of Screams mazes in advance online. The combined maze ticket is available for £12 (making it currently the same price as last year's offerings). Upon booking the ticket, [...]
Staffordshire Moorlands District Council have this week received a planning application from Alton Towers Resort Operations for a new ride, which is presumably designed to be the main new attraction for the 2012 theme park season. The application, which does not have planning documents attached yet, is for the 'construction [...]
Alton Towers has announced that it is to be declared a Kingdom for a day to celebrate the crowning of their newly elected King of the coasters on August Bank Holiday Monday. Over 300,000 rollercoaster fans have voted so far for the Resort’s top five ‘All Time Greats’ - Nemesis, [...]
Earlier today, an eagle-eyed team member spotted the addition of a new poster to the Sales & Information booth in Mutiny Bay. In the style of newspaper extracts, articles humourously describe Captain Black's takeover of Merrie England. However, one particular article amongst these has sparked considerable interest in the rumour [...]
